The United States Marine Corps has selected the Sun Identity Management Suite and Sun has purchased Q-layer, a firm whose technology simplifies cloud management and allows users to quickly provision and deploy applications. Learn more about Sun and cloud computing from Dave Douglas.

Read more Good News from Sun marketing.

See how better SAP performs on Solaris (with unicode) over Linux (non-unicode), on very similar hardware and how much Siebel CRM users can save by upgrading to the T5440.

We all work hard to create data, but what's your policy when it come time to destroy data?

Learn about Solaris and security in the upcoming book "Solaris Security Essentials". A new release of LDoms, 1.1, is now available. Read about the security advantages that stem from the fine-grained resource management capabilities of Solaris Zones.

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Sun's NetBeans IDE won in 5 out of 12 Developer.com Product of the Year categories and the Sun Fire X4150 was awarded Best 1U Server in InfoWorld's 2009 Technology of the Year Awards. Sun is a member of the leaders' quartet in the Burton Group's Provisioning Market RoundUp.

The Barack Obama administration is looking to Scott McNealy for advice on open source technologies and products. Jonathan Schwartz has a new blog entry on OpenStorage.

Learn more about cloud computing, Sun's Unwired Motherboard Plans, project live-star, and why Safeway choose Sun Identity Management Solutions.

Discover how to evaluate Windows 7 Beta with vVM VirtualBox and Microsoft Hyper-V on Sun x64 servers.

Read about the Advantages of Solaris and OpenSolaris over Linux from a DBA.

Plan to attend the OpenSolaris Storage Summit 2009 on February 23rd, 2009, in San Francisco.

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Sun and SAP continue to work together to provide Java SE support. Sun is now offering two new virtualization solutions for small- and medium-sized business.

Sun's open source DTrace and ZFS technologies are now included in FreeBSD as well as Solaris and MacOS.

Sun's GlassFish Application deliver great server price/performance compared to Oracle.

OpenSolaris 2008.11 continues to win over converts from Linux. You will be able to learn more about OpenSolaris in an upcoming book called the "OpenSolaris Bible".

In a youtube video, a Sun engineer demonstrates the effectiveness of the Analytics feature of Sun Storage 7000 series, by literally shouting at the disks to cause a brief performance problem.

JRuby 1.1.6 is a new release of the JRuby Java implementation of the Ruby interpreter.

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Thanks to Solaris-based Chip Multithreading (CMT) systems, software billings, x64 server sales, and open storage business, Sun's second quarter fiscal year 2009 results were not as grim as many expected.

See Sun's new state-of-the art datacenter in Broomfield Colorado.

Read Bryan Cantrill's remarks on the striking similarity between the differentiators announced by NetApp in its original business plan and the Fishworks differentiators of today. Find out how Brendan Gregg gets about 1 Gbyte/sec for streaming disk read, and 500 Mbytes/sec for streaming disk writes, via NFS, from the Sun Storage 7410.

Read about Sun's new HPC and Web Communities and partners like Acumem.

Also read about cloud computing and developing apps for web 2.0 and why Enterprise customers are being cautious about wholesale migration to commodity x86/Linux platforms.

See a Sun BluePrint on building Virtual and Dynamic data centers (including LDoms) with Scalent V/OE and a Sun/SAP paper on virtualizing SAP.

Learn about Crossbow, an important OpenSolaris project that redefines the nature of network virtualization.

Sun xVM Ops Center 2.0 is in the process of being launched.

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